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Jason Prior, head of buildings and places at Aecom, said: ‘This is a high profile and complex project for Aecom, which brings many exciting opportunities and challenges.

‘We are drawing on our experience from being masterplanners of the London Olympics to take the design of the Rio venues and park even further, which will hopefully be reflected in the end result in 2016.’

The masterplan focuses on 120ha of land in the district of Barra de Tijuca, southwest of Rio de Janeiro.

Other British practices are also benefiting from the Rio Games.

3DReid is working with local practice BLAC Architects on the park’s velodrome, while AndArchitects is working with Lopes, Santos & Ferreira Gomes on the handball arena.

Aecom’s original proposals for the Rio 2016 Olympic Park

The UK government has estimated that hosting the football World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016 will create more than 12,000 infrastructure projects in Brazil.

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